Wiper for automobile wind-shields.



G. W. OUSLEY. WIFER FOR AUTOMOBILE WlND SHIELDS.

APPLlCATION FILED APR. 7.1915.

Patented Jan. 25, 1916.

'ITNESSES GEORGE W. OUSLEY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

WIPER FOR AUTOMOBILE WIND-SHIELDS.

Specication f Letters Patent.

Patented Jam.. 25, 1916.

Application led April 7, 1915. Serial No. 19,720.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. OUsLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vipers for Ailtomobile lVind-Shield's, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for wiping condensed moisture from panes of glass or other transparent elements and particularly is adaptable to wind shields of automobiles.

This invention is an improvement of the type of wiper disclosed in my application Ser. No. 87 3,47 6, filed November 23, 1914.

The object of this invention is to provide a device, having cordinate wiping members movable over a large area of the glass pane of an automobile wind shield, which may be readily applied and detached without extraneous devices, and which is neat, ornamental, simple and practical.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in. which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a fragment of an automobile wind shield with the device attached. Fig. 2' is a vertical section in a plane at right angles to Fig. 1, showing the device in side view. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the arm and holder.

1n my present invention the device comprises a stationary or clamp part 2, wlth a split tube 3 of such contour as to resiliently and snugly clasp the frame 4 of an automobile wind shield A. Rigidly connected and turnably `mounted on the opposite sides of the clamp 2 is a pair of twin gears 5-5 which mesh with respectlve gears 6-6 turnably mounted upon parallel, pend-- ent extensions 7v-7, of the clamp 2, overlapping the pane of the wind shield. I

Securely fastened on each gear 6 1s a hollow arm 8 in which is secured, by a screw 9, a bow spring 10. The ends of this spring project toward the median line between the pair of arms 8-8 and react on the ad] acent back of a respective holder 11, of which there is one for each arm. Each holder is pivoted at one end, as by a cotter p in 12, to and in a U-shaped guide 13, of whlch there are two secured or formed on each arm. The holders may be of channel form and tated equally and there in each is a strip 14 of suitable wiping material which may be renewed.

In practice, the device is readily attached to the frame 4 by pressing the wiper holders 11 back against their springs 10-10'so that space is rovided for the clearance of the frame. he holders are then released and w1 ll spring toward and rest upon adj acent sldes of the ,interposed glass. The spring tube 3 is then forced rmly into the desired position on the frame 4.

To clean the two surfaces of the glass, it 1s only necessary to grasp the adjacent arm 8 and swing it, whereupon, through means of its gear 6, the two gears 5--5 are ro- U y the outer gear 6 andl its arm 8 turn- The arms are here shownv as parallel in a common plane and hence 'swing substantially uniformly over the glass. is thus elt'ectually and quickly cleaned.

An advantage of this construction is that by simply removing a Cotter in from a holder 11 this may be readily withdrawn by endwise movement from the guides 13 which allow play of the holders against their springs but prevent lateral play.

It is understood that the body or clamp part may be altered and adapted for application to divers structures as may be necessary 1n practice.

. A simple, eliicient and practicable form of wiper construction is shown which consists of a piece of cloth '14 folded longitudinally over a core bar of harder material 14', the cloth being clenched by the holder 11.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent isl 1. An automobile wind shield glass cleaner, comprising a clamp removably attached to the wind shield frame, intermeshing gears journaled upon oppositesides of the clamp and turnable in unison, arms fixed to the innermost gears and extending upon opposite sides of the glass, springs carried by each arm, and Wiper holders upon which the springs press to maintain a wiping contact with the glass.

2. In a wind shield glass cleaner, a clamp removably attached to the shield frame, a pair of gears fixed to opposite ends of a shaft extending across the clamp, and turnable in unison, a second pair of gears independently journaled to the clamp and meshing with the rst-named gears; arms fixed to A large circular area or surface able in unison, a second pair o '.pendently journaled to the clamp and mesh- -mgg with the lirstfnamed gears; .arms fixed said second vgears and 'extending parallel l upon opposite sides of the glass, 'wiper car- 1 riers extending parallel with Ainterior to the arms',

the glass and and springs carried by the arms and acting to maintain the wipers in contact with the glass.

3. In a wind-shield glass cleaner, 'a clamp removably attached'to the shield frame, a pair of gears fixed to .opposite ends of a shaft extending .across gthe clamp, and turngears indeto said second gears and extending parallel upon opposite sides of the glass, (wiper carmesas@ riers extending interior to the arms, and s prings carried by parallel with'the glass and.

thegarms and acting .to maintain the Wipers "my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. i

A GEORGE W. OUSLEY. Witnesses:

/ JOHN H. Hmmmo, W. W. HEALEY. 

